Critter News
APRIL 6, 2009
Factory farming does not only happen on land. Overfishing, poor resource management, the view of life as a product for sale, and pure greed is crashing fisheries and destroying beautiful ecosystems. Tags: oceans seafood pain crabs. It happens on the sea too. And it is just as wasteful.
Animal Person
JUNE 13, 2009
On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message. Plus though the film isn't long (under two hours), it covers an enormous amount of ground (!), But that's me.
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Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."
Critter News
APRIL 26, 2009
Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. But how much can we accomplish when our resources are so divided? Tags: activism animal rights political movement. I also believe that we are a fragmented movement. There is a group for every cause.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values.
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